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N G; J. SHEPARD N LAUNDRY STOVE AND HEATING FURNACE.

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CHARLES J. SHEPARDQOF BROOKLYN, NEW'YORK.

Letters Patent No. 95,276, dated September 28, 1869.

LanNDRY-s'roveAND HEATiNG-PURNKCE.

I The schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the name.

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. SHEPARD, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, New York, have invented, made, and applied touse, a new and useful Laundry-StoveandHeating Furnace; and that the following is a full, clear, and correct description of the same, reference beinghadto the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved laundry-store and heating-furnace.

Figure 2 is a vertical cut-section of the same. Figure 3 is a top view of the same. -In the drawings, like parts of the invention are i pointed out by the same letters of reference.

The nature of my invention consists in certain improvements, as more fully hereinafter set forth, in the construction of alaundry-stove and heating-furnace.

To enable those skilled in the arts to make and use my inventioiuthe following description ofits construction and operation will be found sufiicient.

Ashows the base for supporting the stove,which base A ismade in the usual manner, and is provided with tbefeet a. l i

Above the base A, and secured upon the same, is a section of a cylinder, 13, forming a portionof the ashpit, and provided with the doors 0 and 1), giving access to the. ash-pit.

E shows the base-plate of the heater, consisting" o a circular plate 'or disk 'of metal, provided with openings, which plate E is secured upon the upper portion of the section of a cylinder, B. y

This base-plate is madesufliciently large in diameter to allow the body L of the heater to rest upon it,

and form, also, a rest when used for heating irons.

The openings in the same are intended for the exit of" the gases arising-from the combustion of the fuel used, and communicate with the pipes G and G while the pipesGr and G are provided with openings communicating'wit-h the smoke-pipe.

Upon this base E is secured a second section of a cylinder, I, placed above the lower section of a cylinder,B, and forming the shell of the lower flue.

Upon this section of a cylinder is placed the bed or grate-plate J, which maybe made of any desired shape, either inclined or horizontal, on which the grate K rests, and whichalso sustains the burning fuel, in connection with the grate.

. The outer edge of this plateJ forms, in connection with the furnace-section L, a seriesoffiues.

L shows thefurnace-section, which may be cast in one entire piece, .or made up of a series of pieces secured together, rising conically from its base, and pro- Yid'ed at its top with an opening for supplying fuel to i the grate, or an opening or openings may be made in the side or sides of the same for this purpose.

This furnace-section L also forms the shell of the combustion-chamber, as well as a portion of the flue, by which the products of combustion, after rising from the grate, are directed downward upon the inner sur face of this furnace-section L to the exit-openings in the base E, as clearly shown in fig. 2 of the drawings.

P shows two or more loose rings, slipped over the upper portion of the section L, and resting uponstops secured upon the exterior of the section L. These rings are intended, when the stove is used for laundrypurposes, to form a rest for the irons, the bottoms of which bear upon the surface of the section L.

Such being the construction, the operation may be thus described:

The fire. is kindled upon the grate K, as is customar'y, and fuel having been placed on the same, the products of combustion rise through the grate into the chamber formed by the plate J and the furnace-section L. Thence the combustion turns and passes down sufficiently for the purposes intended; thence passes i to the lower flue into the openings in the base E, and through the pipes G and G to the smoke-pipe.

If used for laundry-purposes, the furnace-section may be employed to heat irons, as already stated, the top for heating water, andif additional water he needed, the ordinary water-pipes or back may be used in any part of the interior ofthe furnace-section, said waterpipes or water-back being connected as is usual.

When usedas a heating-fi1rnace, the. outer rings P are removed, andthe heater is placed "in a suitable chamber of brick or metal.

It will be observed, that in the construction of the laundry-stove or heating-furnace, as just described, I

place the grate and bed-plate in a central location,

bustion to descend and heat the outer surface of the lower portion of the furnace-section, while, at the same time, the air entering'the ash-pit may be heated as it passesupward to the grate, in its passage through the section I.

Thus it must be evident, that if bituminous coal be i used as fuel, the 'combustionarising from the same will be forceddown'through the burning fuel, leaving little, if any, smoke.

. I am well aware, that in some cases, a series of openings might be made in the plate B, and a circular flue made under this plate, which would accomplish precisely the same result as now shown, the products of combustion in this case passing through the openings into the circular flue, and from this flue to the smokepipe.

Having thus described my invention,

\Vhat I claim as new therein, is-

1. The grate and bed-plate, cent-rally situated, placed so as to allow the flame and gases to pass 0 rer and under the bed-plate and fuel, for the purposes specified.

2. The flue under the bed-plate, so arranged as to eflectnally heat the outer surface of the heater.

3. Taking the products of combustion from the flue, at one or more points, for the purpose of distributing the heat more beneficially.

Witnesses: CHAS. J. SHEPARD.

A. SIDNEY DOANE,

B. W. SPEARS. 

